Sweet Little Munchkin

Monday, August 8, 2011

As I was seriously researching some 'best practices' for our at-home-supplemental-schooling I started reading Counting Coconuts. Mari-Ann is a brilliant home schooling mama and I love her style. After seeing her classroom calendar, I ran right out an made a near-replica. I love how everything is contained in one space and it really focuses Munckin for 'calendar time'.

The corkboard itself is from IKEA and I pretty much copied Mari-Ann's fantastic board. Both Munchkin & I absolutely love it.

Wow, it's been forever since I posted here. Things got busy and while I was taking pictures of everything, I just wasn't following up with the posting...and then we took a little break from themes. A theme a week was too much and we found it impossible to get through everything. So now we're back to themes but at a more laid back pace. I have the themes scheduled out in two-week slots for the rest of the year.

Although the pace is more laid back, the actual activities have become much more structured. During the past 7 months we've transitioned into an eclectic Montessori/Workbox hybrid style with at least 8 boxes for Munchkin to work on each day. In addition to those, there are also puzzles, playdough and art supplies that Munchkin can work with after he's finished his 'workboxes'.

I should also mention that I'm not a full-time stay at home mama and Munchkin does attend Preschool. The boxes are worked as a supplement to his regular Preschool.

I have never pushed this blog as it has been my intention to simply document some of the fun stuff that Munchkin and I were doing. That is my continuing goal, although it may intertwine with the Sweet Little Smoothie blog a bit more as I mesh this into a single blogging location.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Happy Monday! Now that we're firmly in January, I thought that a snowman theme would be fitting...especially since we're forcasted to get upto another 6 inches in the next few days. Munchkin absolutely loves the snow. Loves wearing his snow suit and boots. Loves helping Daddy shovel the driveway. Loves shoveling snow back onto the driveway... The only thing we haven't done yet is build a snowman. I'm hoping that this storm will bring some better snowman snow - we've only had the powdery stuff so far this year. Here are the snow-tivites that we'll be up to this week:

Monday, January 3, 2011

Happy 1st Monday of 2011! This week Munchkin & I are going to be doing some miscellaneous winter projects and reading a hodge podge of books...yes, hodge podge. Here's our first tot-tivities of 2011:Letter of the Week: WCreative, Crafty, Sensory Fun:

Monday, November 1, 2010

Happy Monday!! Hope everyone had a frightfully delightful Halloween! Munchkin has been pretending to be a robot every now and again, and after all the birthday and Halloween festivities, I needed an easy theme ;) Here's our planned robot fun for this week:

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Happy Tuesday! Here's one of our birthday-tivities - a cupcake matching game :) It was so simple to make and so adapatable to ANY theme - just buy different wrapping/scrapbook paper to change the theme - easy peasy!

Supplies:2 small foam sheetscupcake wrapping paperglue stick

Cut out individual cupcakes/images - we used 6 different images, but this could easily be expanded to increase the level of difficulty

Cut the same number of squares from your foam sheets (you could also use card stock)